I saw the original short, which was very powerful. So this extended story appears weaker by contrast. The short story was just about the 2 former soldiers on opposite sides of the Iran-Iraq war meeting many years later. The 2 war veterans now try to find / reunite with their families back in the middle east, with parts of the short pasted in to provide the back story. But this is an ongoing documentary film, not one based on known success, like Lion. Each man has his challenges. The Iranian has legal problems getting home. The Iraqi never formally married his wife, so his son is technically fatherless, and his biological family didn't even know of this relationship. In each case, they got something, but not everything they wanted, out of their quest.The movie shows the good and bad sides of family relationships, and the bad after-effects of war.